Jane, the Census does indeed determine the number of Reps allotted to each state. The issue is whether that allocation is to be based on the number of people living in each state, or whether it is the number of citizens living in each state.

As well as the the allocation of little things like the Highway Funds go to the number of "persons" in each state. It's a very specific wording, sourced to one particular amendment (can't recall, but think it's the 14th), that uses the person count of the census versus the more accurate "citizens".

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More fun from this morning's readings and consistent with links I put up yesterday.

Embedding racial equity into an organizational culture requires intentional work every single day. On a personal level, it can require a lifetime of studying, learning and unlearning which can seem daunting. There are many ways to incorporate thoughtful reflection and “racial equity pauses” into your processes in your day-to-day. At Living Cities, we have, for example, compiled songs with lyrics about race, identity, and justice; or that reminded staff of their culture. We have made time in meetings to reflect on current events as they relate to race. And, we have opened meetings with artistic and imaginative activities and check-in questions. This resource compiles some of those questions and activities that we’ve used to center humanity in our every day work.

This list is not exhaustive but includes just a few of the ways that we’ve been able to have meaningful conversations with each other and to build relationships

If you have any questions or want to share your story on your racial equity journey, please email racialequity@livingcities.org

The front page of today's Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier in #Iowa demonstrates the benefits of President Trump's record-breaking economy. The city is having its best construction year since 2007! pic.twitter.com/M1opKvmwk2

This explains a lot, including why my youngest came back from the Southern Hemisphere so determined to get us to reject plastic straws and telling me about reusable plastic bags you can put in dishwasher.

"The New Plastics Economy Global Commitment unites businesses, governments, and other organisations behind a common vision and targets to address plastic waste and pollution at its source. It is led by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation in collaboration with UN Environment.Launched in October 2018, the Global Commitment already unites more than 400 organisations on its common vision of a circular economy for plastics, keeping plastics in the economy and out of the ocean. Signatories include:•Close to 200 businesses that are part of the plastic packaging value chain, jointly representing over 20% of all plastic packaging used globally, including many of the world’s leading consumer packaged goods companies, retailers, and plastic packaging producers •16 governments across five continents and across national, regional, and city level•26 financial institutions with a combined USD 4.2 trillion worth of assets under management and 6 investors in total committing to invest about USD 275 million•Leading institutions such as WWF, the World Economic Forum, the Consumer Goods Forum, and IUCN•More than 50 academics, universities, and other educational or research organisations including MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative, Michigan State University, and University College LondonAll 400+ organisations have endorsed one common vision of a circular economy for plastics, in which plastics never become waste (see next page).To help make this vision a reality, all business and government signatories to the Global Commitment are committing to a set of ambitious 2025 targets. They will work to eliminate the plastic items we don’t need; innovate so all plastics we do need are designed to be safely reused, recycled, or composted; and circulateeverything we use to keep it in the economy and out of the environment. Credibility and transparency are ensured by setting a clear minimum level of ambition for signatories, common definitions underpinning all commitments, publication of commitments online and annual reporting on progress, with the first progress report to be published later in 2019. The minimum ambition level will be reviewed every 18 to 24 months, and become increasingly ambitious over the coming years to ensure the Global Commitment continues to represent true leadership.The Ellen MacArthur Foundation and UN Environment call on all businesses that make or use plastics, and all governments across the world, to sign up to the Global Commitment and join the more than 400 signatories in a ‘race to the top’ to create a circular economy for plastic."

Embedding racial equity into an organizational culture requires intentional work every single day. On a personal level, it can require a lifetime of studying, learning and unlearning which can seem daunting

Well, fuck that.

Sorry. That sort of madness doesn't deserve a more thoughtful response.

We need to start stringing these communist one-world bastards up by the truckload.

I had the plastic straw discussion with my daughter, who, before we had the conversation, bought re-usable metal straws.

I pointed out to her that we live in INDIANA. A plastic straw put in our trash here does NOT wind up in the ocean, Atlantic or Pacific. It goes to a land fill. To get to the ocean, it would have to somehow wind up in the White River, flowing to the Wabash, Ohio and the Mississippi Rivers, all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. Ridiculous to worry about this.

A thinly veiled attempt to close off the use of hydrocarbons, and thus, closing a market for same. Aside from the usual loss of safe products that protect food from contamination, you know, to get that other part of population control into play.

Two thoughts. First, they make keto easier by the day. Second, English on has two gendered pronouns, or the universal "it."

Oreos, the best-selling cookie in the United States, is baking up a special edition of the tasty treats in partnership with the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). The purpose of the limited joint venture is to indoctrinate school children on the use of pronouns as they relate to the LGBTQ community.

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Trump is politicizing July 4th or something.

The old/middle english term faggot means a bundle of sticks bound together as fuel (faggot is derived the latin term fascis which is also the root for the term fasiculus). Patinets [sic]with acute promyelocytic leukemia have cells with bundles of auer rods. These are known as faggot cells and are virtually diagnostic of acute promyelocytic leukemia. faggot cells can be seen in more mature cells following treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia with ATRA. The have rarely been reported in patients with other from of acute myeloid leukemia.

China and Europe playing big currency manipulation game and pumping money into their system in order to compete with USA. We should MATCH, or continue being the dummies who sit back and politely watch as other countries continue to play their games - as they have for many years!
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I am stupid about this financial stuff. Can somebody explain this "MATCH" thing so that I understand the significance?

I believe congressional districts are determined by number of people regardless of whether here legally or illegally so the presence of the citizenship question is irrelevant to that issue.
It is relevant to the question of a broad understanding of how many illegals there are, or at least how many will answer honestly.
Thanks to Roberts it is now most importantly about whether the courts will continue to meddle in politics rather than the law.
The fact is the court had a better argument sticking its nose into the gerrymandering case than it did into the census one, which makes Roberts' incoherence and intellectual puniness all the more plain.

One of the fun things about London was the military parades and demonstrations and flyovers and whatever. Not having our military represented on the 4th of July is beyond absurd.

We're not the Russians who parade tanks and missiles and hawt young female passport control officers in tight skirts through Red Square every May 8 or the Emperor Xi with his frickin' naval revue dressed up in some weird cameo uniform.

It's a couple of tanks and the Left are having heart attacks. The headlines are absurd. "How to Move Tanks to Mall", "Very Large Scary Nazi Trumpist Warmonger Killing Machines in DC to overthrow Pelosi".

It ties up Congressional delegations, Tax receipt allocations, and such. That's why the Sanctuary City argument is so vital for them. Lose that head count and their whole house of cards "biz" model flattens.

Yes, the courts have used the 14th amendment to make it based on persons.

Not really the courts. It's what the Constitution says:

Article I, section 2, clause 3:

Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.

I do think there's and case to be made that people in the country illegally shouldn't count, just as foreign visitors shouldn't count, but that's an argument against the literal words of the Constitution.